But when the crisis is over he takes his revenge, swaggering as the breadwinner, and speaking of Woman’s "sphere" with condescension, even with chivalry, as if the kitchen and the nursery were less important than the office in the city.

He condescends to look in upon us here from time to time.

The only moral force you condescend to parade is the force of your wit: the only demand you make in public is the demand of your artistic temperament for symmetry, elegance, style, grace, refinement, and the cleanliness which comes next to godliness if not before it.

There are no more uses of "condescending" in the book.

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She gave me that condescending look as though I wasn’t worthy to ask her a question.